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enGreg Dennis: Vermont has felt its share of coldhttp://addisonindependent.com/201502greg-dennis-vermont-has-felt-its-share-cold
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There&rsquo;s an old story about the Vermont farmer who had his farm in the Connecticut River Valley.</p>
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Over the years, the river had changed course several times and eventually, out-of-state surveyors were hired to determine exactly where the state line was.</p>
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When their work was completed, it fell to one of the surveyors to tell the old Vermont farmer that his land was in fact not in Vermont, but was actually in New Hampshire.</p>
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&ldquo;I&rsquo;m mighty glad to hear that!&rdquo; the farmer said.</p>
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Reports commissioned by a state legislature are famous fodder for recycling bins.</p>
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But a recent report prepared for the Vermont Legislature promises to be widely read and debated. That&rsquo;s because it&rsquo;s about a topic with lots of buzz in every sense of the word: Should Vermont legalize marijuana?</p>
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We&rsquo;ve already decriminalized possession of less than an ounce. Now Vermont is seriously debating whether to join four states and the District of Columbia by fully legalizing the wily weed.</p>
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Hugging is a wonderful way to express affection. It&rsquo;s one of my favorite things to do.</p>
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But when it comes to men hugging their casual male friends, I&rsquo;m sure I speak for many men when I say:</p>
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Can&rsquo;t we just go back to shaking hands?</p>
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I&rsquo;m not sure when it was that hugging among men became the New Normal. Maybe it started back in the Seventies, when feminist-oriented women (rightly) started pounding it into our feeble male brains that it wouldn&rsquo;t kill us to show some public affection to other men, now and then.</p>
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But a recent report prepared for the Vermont Legislature promises to be widely read and debated. That&rsquo;s because it&rsquo;s about a topic with lots of buzz in every sense of the word: Should Vermont legalize marijuana?</p>
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We&rsquo;ve already decriminalized possession of less than an ounce. Now Vermont is seriously debating whether to join four states and the District of Columbia by fully legalizing the wily weed.</p>
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However 2014 may have treated you, perhaps you can take some small comfort from the fact that it didn&rsquo;t include any of the incidents below. They&rsquo;re drawn from police reports published in this newspaper last year.</p>
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<strong>Hi, Ho, Silver!</strong> Late one night last July, Bristol police had to use a rope to capture a riderless horse that was galloping down Main Street. The horse was returned to its owner.</p>
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Every sport has its own nostalgia.</p>
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Red Sox fans remember where they were when the Curse of the Bambino was finally broken. Patriots partisans know exactly how Tom Brady engineered that last Super Bowl-winning drive. Basketball fans even trek to the dreary hall of fame in Springfield, Mass.</p>
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But few sports are as redolent with nostalgia as downhill skiing is.</p>
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<span style="line-height: 20.7999992370605px;">It&rsquo;s been true for decades that in Vermont most of us no longer live or work on farms. Addison County sometimes even seems to be slowly suburbanizing.</span></p>
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So it&rsquo;s easy to forget how wrapped up Vermont&rsquo;s identity remains with agriculture &mdash; from the beauty of our landscape to the local produce at the natural foods store around the corner.</p>
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While our politics are often dominated by concerns about energy, social services and healthcare, agriculture still has a big role to play.</p>
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<span style="line-height: 20.7999992370605px;">I knew as soon as I walked back into the office that there was a problem.</span></p>
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I had two of the big three &mdash; my wallet and keys. But I couldn&rsquo;t locate my iPhone.</p>
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After several frantic searches of the car, I called the caf&eacute; where I&rsquo;d been sitting outside while I worked on email and quaffed a coffee. They checked the tables where I&rsquo;d been sitting and didn&rsquo;t see the phone.</p>
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<span style="line-height: 20.799999237060547px;">I always liked John best.</span></p>
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He had the most irreverent sense of humor. He wasn&rsquo;t afraid to make the kind of brutally frank social commentary that we heard from so few public figures back then.</p>
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John once said the Beatles were &ldquo;more popular than Jesus,&rdquo; and he might have been right.</p>
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George was inscrutable, and Ringo was for girls &mdash; except for the girls who like Paul best. He was the cute one.</p>
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<span style="line-height: 20.799999237060547px;">A woman takes her seat for a long train ride in a foreign country. She&rsquo;s a plant biologist who travels the world to study and document rare plant species. It&rsquo;s one more trip among many.</span></p>
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For the past two years, since her husband Michael died, she&rsquo;s been traveling even more. Sometimes staying ahead of the pain, sometimes just learning to live with it. (This is a true story, though the names and some details have been changed to protect the principals&rsquo; identities.)</p>
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<span style="line-height: 20.799999237060547px;">&quot;In the spring a young man&rsquo;s fancy lightly turns to love,&rdquo; wrote the poet Tennyson.</span></p>
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But in the &ldquo;I Spy&rdquo; section of personal ads in <em>Seven Days</em>, the fancy of men and women isn&rsquo;t restricted to springtime. It turns to love all year round.</p>
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The Burlington-based alternative weekly has been running I Spy ads for most of its nearly 20 years, helping casual strangers make romantic connections.</p>
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What&rsquo;s the true nature of our expensive healthcare system? Is it an overregulated mess that&rsquo;s crying out for free-market forces to improve quality and lower costs, by expanding competition among providers?</p>
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Or is it an under-regulated mess that&rsquo;s crying out for a single-payer system to improve quality and lower costs, by eliminating the expensive, greedy middlemen known as insurance companies?</p>
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<span style="line-height: 20px;">Step into this house, girl, and I&rsquo;ll sing for you a song. I&rsquo;ll tell you all about where I&rsquo;ve been. It shouldn&rsquo;t take too long.</span></p>
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I lived with the decent folks in the hills of old Vermont. Where what you do all day depends on what you want.</p>
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I took up with a woman there when I was just a kid, and I smile like the sun to think of the loving that we did. Yankee lady so good to me, Yankee lady, just a memory.</p>
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It&rsquo;s an impossibly beautiful summer morning in Vermont &mdash; and I&rsquo;m leaving the state on the last Saturday of July to go sit in a dirty church basement in Providence, R.I.</p>
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My travel takes me south through the mountain towns of Jamaica and Townshend along Route 30. There&rsquo;s a farmer&rsquo;s market along the way, and in another town they&rsquo;re getting ready for a parade.</p>
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On the shortcut through Brattleboro I pass the old ski jump on the edge of town, near signs protesting a skateboard park.</p>
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